Dolika Banda

Appointed in September 2018. Dolika is an independent consultant with over 30 years’ experience in banking and development finance.

A Zambian national based in Johannesburg and Lusaka, she has worked across the world in Africa, Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean and the USA. She is a Founding Partner of Mondiale Impact, a firm focused on governance for shaping sustainable and impactful investment.

Dolika currently serves on several boards, including as Chair of Standard Chartered Bank Zambia. She also sits as an independent Non-Executive Director on the boards of CARE-USA and Harith General Partners, a South Africa-based manager of pan-African infrastructure funds.

She is a member of the Leadership Panel of the Africa Centre for Economic Transformation and is also a Global Ambassador for the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment. She previously served as Non-Executive Chair of ZCCM Investment Holdings Plc, Non-Executive Director at Ecobank Transnational Incorporated and the FCDO’s (previously DFID’s) Financial Sector Deepening Africa programme.

Dolika has held positions of CEO of African Risk Capacity Insurance Ltd, Africa Regional Director of British International Investment and Director Financial Markets at the International Finance Corporation. She has held senior positions at Barclays and Citibank in Zambia. She holds a master’s degree in international business from Schiller University, USA.

Since 2013, Dolika has focused on economic, inclusive, transformational and climate-conscious development for Africa and innovative interventions in education, and how to bring these global issues into the impact governance structure of organisations.